Stockhausen

[james]

Stockhausen has fallen out of favour over the past few years. However, here is a link to some intreesting [and enthusiac] essays about his works ..

http://home.earthlink.net/~almoritz/sto ... eviews.htm

james

P.S. He came to Dublin in the early 1970's and gave a lecture in the music dept in TCD [in English] as part of the Dublin Festival of 20th Century Music.

[james]

Some more links ..

http://www.sonoloco.com/rev/stockhausen ... ausen.html

Links to reviews are in the panel on the left

[Seán]

Thanks James, I know that Stockhausen is an acquired taste that I have yet to enjoy.

[james]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sb9lj

"A very rare complete performance of one of the great works of the late twentieth century avant garde: Karlheinz Stockhausen's iconic electroacoustic masterpiece Hymnen. "

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"Hymnen launches Radio 3’s New Year New Music series on 1 January. bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sb9lj. Sockhausen is Radio 3’s Composer of the Week on 4-8 January."

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http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/d ... -garde-pop

"Crackle goes pop: how Stockhausen seduced the Beatles

The Beatles’ Revolution 9 brought experimental music to a global audience, but their radio soundworld wouldn’t have been possible without Stockhausen’s ‘music of the whole world’"